Methods and systems for enabling end-user equipment at an end-user premise to effect communications when an ability of the end-user to communicate via a communication link connecting the end-user equipment to a communications network is disrupted
US9681485B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 23, 2008 |
| Grant date | Jun 13, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 14, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04K2203/18
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for effecting communications, such as telephone calls, accesses to data network sites, alarm system communications, and/or other communications, over a communications network. The method comprises: determining that an ability of first end-user equipment at a first end-user premise to communicate via a first communication link connecting the first end-user equipment to the communications network is disrupted; establishing a wireless communication link between the first end-user equipment and second end-user equipment at a second end-user premise; and causing information transmitted by or destined for the first end-user equipment to be exchanged over the communications network via the wireless communication link and a second communication link connecting the second end-user equipment to the communications network. Also provided are apparatus and computer-readable media containing a program element executable by a computing system to perform such a method.
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